Deadwood

We drove through the hills to Deadwood this weekend. We had no clue there would be so much to see. We are HUGE fans of the HBO show, and we were darn right giddy to see Seth Bullock's hotel where his original hardware store once was. Or to see where Wild Bill was shot, or where they caught the s.o.b. that shot him. And beyond excitement was our buffalo lunch at the site of the original Gem Theater! I took bites of my buffalo french dip, while my mind was racing with thoughts like, "geez right here is where Al bought dope from Woo, and where Al's whore turned tricks, and where people were killed! It was so exciting!

Here is Seth's hotel! I couldn't bear to go inside. I need to spend a whole day in Deadwood. We only had a small amount of time, and I thought I might burst if I went in. We were REALLY excited!

I knew that Deadwood was burned in a fire in 1879 and had been rebuilt, but I didn't realize it was rebuilt before 1900 so everything is still really cool and the old brick buildings had me looking everywhere at all of the details. I was really fascinated.

This is the alley along the Bullock Hotel, the shutters gave me chills. Are they originals, or do they make those things look old and original? I have to find out before I go again.

The original site of Saloon 10 where Wild Bill was shot and killed while playing poker.

Main street of Deadwood

I really cannot explain the giddy and rush of excitement that was pulsing through us. Really the only way I can try is to say, now I sort of understand why Trekkie act like total idiots because they love star trek to much. If they had conventions in Deadwood where you dressed like your favorite deadwood person I may or may not start piecing a Calamity Jane get up together.(minus the STDs)

Fly Fly

Jukibird is a happy bird.

He like to swing and eat.

And chat with the birds in the 3 way mirror.

And he likes to land on the strangest places when we let him out.

Nathan looses his mind with excitement. yelling, "FLY FLY FLY!"

But then Jukibird flies into a wall and I announce its time to put him back for now.

That makes me nervous.

Nate the culinary apprentice

He is so interested and helpful.

and this morning he set the table! He took the plates and forks to the table this morning and put one on each placemat. I was impressed. He explained it to Dave, 'yep, plate plate, fork fork.'

PS if your worried about our cholesterol, don't. We don't have big breakfasts every weekend.

During the week we eat these

Nate's cereal

my cereal

Dave's cereal

Or there is organic oatmeal.

Pancakes and Undies

We had an exciting day today. We had organic blueberry pancakes this morning.

Can you tell he was sneaking a few berries???

Nathan pooped on the potty again today, and while we were shopping, he remembered to tell us when he had to go potty! Once at the fabric store, and once at Best Buy. (And if you notice the smiley face band aid on his tush, he had a potty dismount incident. But he isn't traumatized)

We finally replaced our jalopy of a laptop today. Its very nice to have a functioning computer. We bought an all in one computer. Nathan really enjoys the touch screen coloring!

We are still glued to the news coverage of the devastation in Japan. We have heard bits and pieces about the area where we lived. One friend talked to a friend still in Misawa, who was on the bullet train with 15 teens going to Tokyo for a track meet when the earthquake hit. They were on the BULLET train when it derailed! But everyone was fine. Talk about scary.

Every time we had a quake while we were in Misawa I prayed we wouldn't be there for the "big one", and I'm really glad we weren't. But it is so hard to watch and know how many Americans are up there scared out of their minds no doubt. And to think of all of the kind wonderful Japanese that obviously didn't survive is just heart wrenching.

Northern Japan

It is a very sad day for us to watch the place we called home for 4 years go through such a horrible thing. The place where Nathan was born.

Utter destruction. So sad. This video is from Hachinohe which is very near Misawa. Its the town that had the mall we went to. The toyrus where I bought Nathan's Bumbo. The fish market we took Dave's mom and Jackie to see during their visits.

Misawa is without power or heat. But safe.

What a sad time for the country where we made so many fond memories.

Moment of the Week

These are super washable markers! Thank goodness, the sofa was colored on too :(

He's an artEEst

POOP IN THE POTTY

We have got poop IN THE POTTY people!

I repeat Nathan has POOPED ON THE POTTY!

And he has definitely been doing awesome going number 1 on the potty.

In the week since we started real undies during awake time he has only had 4 accidents!

That leaves an uncountable number of successful potty visits!

YAY!! I'll take most of my Pampers money back now please!